Research Article

Structural Basis for Species Selectivity in the HIV-1 gp120-CD4 Interaction: Restoring Affinity to gp120 in Murine CD4 Mimetic Peptides

Table 1

Clashes of mCD4 with gp120. WHAT_CHECK analysis of clashes detected between mCD4 with gp120. All clashes > 0.8 Å are listed; bb and sc denote clashes by backbone or side-chain atoms. The clashes are visualized in Figure 2.

gp120mCD4Clash size [Å]
RegionResidue-IDResidue-IDRegion

CD4-binding loopS365 (sc)G49 (bb)CD-loop insertion1.95
β20/β21 (bridging sheet)K429 (sc)K42 (sc)C′C-loop insertion1.64
β20/β21 (bridging sheet)Q428 (bb)K42 (sc)C′C-loop insertion1.27
CD4-binding loopI371 (sc)V44 (sc)C (F43/V44)0.87
CD4-binding loopS365 (sc)G48 (bb)C0.84